US7787637B2 - Apparatus for improving image in car audio system, and control method thereof - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a car audio system, and more particularly, to an apparatus for improving an image in a car audio system, and a control method thereof.
- a digital car audio system for opening and closing a car door and receiving a music file by a cellular phone to reproduce the received music file through an audio device.
- the digital car audio system uses a digital intermediate frequency (DIF) method and a Bluetooth method being a standard of a local area wireless communication.
- DIF digital intermediate frequency
- Bluetooth being a standard of a local area wireless communication.
- the digital car audio system is excellent in its performance of radio wave reception and reduces to the minimum an unnecessary noise or a multi-path phenomenon where radio wave is reflected in a downtown building jungle, thereby providing the best sound quality.
- the car is greatly limited in its listening space and therefore, is being varied little by little for a condition of golden triangle partition. This is because, in a comparison of a ratio of a direct sound to an indirect sound, an excessive direct sound causes a user of the car audio system to easily feel fatigue and dislike and an excessive indirect sound causes the user to easily feel tight in listening to all music.
- a reverberation time suitable to the listening space functions as an important factor in order to listen to the music.
- Reverberation is determined depending on a ratio where a sound is reflected in the listening space.
- a characteristic of a sound having a long reverberation time is called “live”, and a characteristic of a sound having a short reverberation time is called “dead”.
- live a characteristic of a sound having a long reverberation time
- dead a characteristic of a sound having a short reverberation time
- a rear speaker is not only fixed but also reproduces only middle and low band sound in the car audio system, and therefore it is difficult to consider the live and dead characteristics of the reverberation. Accordingly, it is difficult to embody an accurate image depending on a position of the user of the car audio system, thereby making it also difficult to embody a Dolby digital surround sound in the car audio system.
- FIGS. 1 a and 1 b schematically illustrate the sound direction depending on the speaker position of the car audio system.
- the car audio system includes a front speaker and a rear speaker.
- the sound direction based on a straightness of the high band sound and a permeability of the low band sound depending on the front speakers and the rear speakers is illustrated in FIGS. 1 a and 1 b.
- the speakers of the car audio system are provided only at predetermined positions of a narrow car space and therefore, there is a drawback in that it is difficult to embody the accurate image depending on the user position, thereby deteriorating the sound stage.
- the present invention is directed to an apparatus for improving an image in a car audio system and a control method thereof that substantially overcome one or more of the limitations and disadvantages of the conventional art.
- One object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for improving an image in a car audio system, and a control method thereof.
- an apparatus for improving an image in a car audio system including: a first speaker unit for outputting a high band sound from a sound reproduced in the car audio system; a second speaker unit for outputting a middle band sound and a low band sound from the sound reproduced in the car audio system; a first structure for providing a directionality for the low band sound; and a second structure for rotating the first structure correspondingly to a position of a user of the car audio system.
- a control method of an image improving apparatus of a car audio system having a first speaker unit for outputting a high band sound from a sound reproduced in the car audio system, and a second speaker unit for outputting a middle band sound and a low band sound from the sound reproduced in the car audio system, the method including the step of: adjusting a direction of the low band sound outputted from the second speaker unit, correspondingly to a position of a user of the car audio system.
- FIGS. 1 a and 1 b schematically illustrates a conventional sound direction depending on a speaker position in a car audio system
- FIGS. 2 a and 2 b is a front view and a side view illustrating an apparatus for improving an image in a car audio system according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 3 schematically illustrates an operation of the image improving apparatus of FIGS. 2 a and 2 b;
- FIG. 4 illustrates a state where a hemisphere shaped structure of the image improving apparatus is adjusted in direction depending on a user position in a car audio system
- FIG. 5 schematically illustrates a sound direction when a hemisphere shaped structure is adjusted in direction depending on a user position in the car audio system of FIG. 4 .
- the present invention provides an apparatus for improving an image in a car audio system, and a control method thereof.
- the present invention provides the apparatus in which a speaker is disposed in the car audio system in consideration of a characteristic of car space and a characteristic of sound, thereby improving the image, and the control method thereof.
- FIGS. 2 a and 2 b are a front view and a side view illustrating an apparatus for improving an image in a car audio system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a rear speaker employs a speaker for reproducing a middle and low sound, and is embodied to face upward.
- it is impossible to reproduce a sound at all bands, and even though the sound is reproduced at all bands, it is impossible to embody an accurate image due to a sound distortion ratio.
- a low band sound is relatively good in permeability and is not directional, and as the sound grows high in band, it gets more directional and gets worse in permeability.
- a reference numeral 200 denotes a speaker unit for outputting the high band sound
- a reference numeral 210 denotes a hemisphere shaped structure for generating a directionality of the low band sound
- a reference numeral 220 denotes a speaker unit for outputting the middle and low sound
- a reference numeral 230 denotes a structure for rotating the hemisphere shaped structure 210 .
- FIGS. 2 a and 2 b the structure of the inventive image improving apparatus of the car audio system is described as above. Next, an operation of the image improving apparatus of FIGS. 2 a and 2 b will be described with reference to FIG. 3 .
- FIG. 3 schematically illustrates the operation of the image improving apparatus of FIGS. 2 a and 2 b.
- the speaker unit 200 outputs the high band sound from the reproduced sound
- the speaker unit 220 outputs a middle band sound and the low band sound from the reproduced sound.
- the middle band sound and the low band sound are outputted from the speaker unit, and travel toward a user of the car audio system owing to the hemisphere shaped structure 210 .
- the structure 230 adjusts the hemisphere shaped structure 210 in direction so that the hemisphere shaped structure 210 enables the speaker unit 220 to output the middle band sound and the low band sound toward the user of the car audio system.
- FIG. 3 the operation of the image improving apparatus of FIGS. 2 a and 2 b is described as above.
- direction adjustment of the hemisphere structure 210 depending on a position of the user of the car audio system will be described with reference to FIG. 4 .
- FIG. 4 illustrates a state where the hemisphere shaped structure 210 of the image improving apparatus of FIGS. 2 a and 2 b is adjusted in direction depending on the position of the user of the car audio system.
- the user of the car audio system is positioned at a driver's seat and therefore, the hemisphere structure 210 of the image improving apparatus is adjusted in direction toward the user of the car audio system positioned at the driver's seat.
- FIG. 4 the direction adjustment of the hemisphere shaped structure 210 depending on the position of the user of the car audio system is described as above.
- a sound direction when the hemisphere shaped structure 210 is adjusted in direction depending on the position of the user of the car audio system as in FIG. 4 will be described with reference to FIG. 5 .
- FIG. 5 schematically illustrates the sound direction when the hemisphere shaped structure 210 is adjusted in direction depending on the position of the user of the car audio system of FIG. 4 .
- the hemisphere shaped structure 210 is adjusted in direction toward the driver positioning seat as described in FIG. 4 , the sound is generated and travels toward the car driver's seat. In other words, the image can be accurately embodied toward the driver' seat in the car space.
- the present invention has an advantage in that the speaker is adjusted in direction depending on the user position in the car audio system, thereby adjusting the sound direction depending on the user position and embodying the accurate image.
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